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For Día de los Muertos, we asked for our listeners to write, call-in, and come by our studios to remember their loved ones who have passed. We would like to thank everyone who participated from the bottom of our hearts for … Continue reading →

On October 27th Marfa Live Arts is hosting All about Bette: An Interlude with Bette Davis – The multiple award-winning show was written by El Paso-based Camilla Carr and stars Morgana Shaw. Alongside the performance on Saturday night, Marfa Live … Continue reading →

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Many musicians descended upon Marfa this past weekend for the annual Trans-Pecos Festival. One of them was Shannon Shaw, who this year, not only released the fifth studio album with her group Shannon & The Clams, but also her first solo … Continue reading →

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Andy Grant (along with Jimmy Magliozzi and Paul Ritacco) joined us in Marfa Public Radio’s Studio A to play a few songs. Andy is a musician, singer/songwriter, who began his career playing guitar with notable acts like Deer Tick and The Shivers. … Continue reading →

House Bill 3287, passed during the Regular Legislative session, became one of many new laws to go into effect in September. It says breweries, licensed as of September 1st, producing more than two-hundred-twenty-five-thousand barrels of beer per year cannot operate … Continue reading →

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -A surge in production in the Permian Basin of west Texas, already the nation’s highest producing oilfield, is extracting more crude oil than refiners in Texas can handle. But now, producers in the Permian have new outlets for that oil with economic … Continue reading →

The Brewster County Sheriff’s Office is requesting the public’s help in locating Stormie Clemmer, a 15 year old, female, with short brown hair, green eyes, approximately 5′ 7″ tall. Stormie was last seen in the Alpine area wearing a black … Continue reading →

The Permian Basin labor market remained stable with a declining unemployment rate in April according to a report out from the Dallas Fed today (Thursday). Total non-farm employment in the Basin inched up by 200 jobs from March to April … Continue reading →

The Board of Directors of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas recently endorsed a new transmission project which includes two new 345-kV (Kilovolt) lines to address future reliability concerns in West Texas.

The dream of a unified North American electricity grid could not have been contemplated until Mexico’s electricity market was opened to foreign companies in 2014. Today larger scale volumes of electricity are flowing in both directions across the Mexico-United States … Continue reading →